Patrick O'Brian
September 11th 2006 06:25
Birth Name: Richard Patrick Russ
Place of Birth: Buckinghamshire, England
Born: 1914
Died: 2000
Other jobs: Worked as a book translator and did journalist work early in his career.
O'Brian is most well known for his series of historical, sea-faring Napoleonic books featuring the characters of Captain Jack Aubrey and Doctor Maturin.There are twenty books in total in this series, plus one unfinished book that O'Brian was working on at the time of his death. The tenth of these books was turned into the 2004 film 'Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World', directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe.
O'Brian published his first book when he was just fourteen and followed this up with six other historical-adventure and teen-aimed books before starting on the Aubrey-Maturin books. His books are well renowned for their accurate historical details and the heavy research that went into them.
Stand-alone books
Caesar (1930)
Hussein (1934)
Testimonies (1952)
The Catalans (1954)
The Golden Ocean (1956)
The Unknown Shore (1959)
Richard Temple (1962)
Men of War: Life in Nelson's Navy (1974) Non-Fiction
Picasso (1976) Non-Fiction
The Rendezvous and other sories (1994) Collected Short Stories
Aubrey-Maturin series
Master and Commander (1970)
Post Captain (1972)
HMS Surprise (1973)
The Mauritius Command (1977)
Desolation Island (1978)
The Fortune of War (1979)
The Surgeon's Mate (1980)
The Ionian Mission (1981)
Treason's Harbour (1983)
The Far Side of the World (1984)
The Reverse of the Medal (1986)
The Letter of Marque (1988)
The Thirteen-Gun Salute (1989)
The Nutmeg of Consolation (1991)
Clarissa Oakes (1993)
The Wine-Dark Sea (1993)
The Commodore (1995)
The Yellow Admiral (1996)
The Hundred Days (1998)
Blue at the Mizzan (1999)
The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (2004) Posthumous
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Comment by JohnDoe
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Shame about the film of Master and Commander, really didnt capture the essence of the books sadly.